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Tuna salad, pasta salad... Cool 'n creamy scoopable dishes like these are summertime staples. Here are a couple of delicious twists on old favorites. Scoop's on!
1/4th of recipe (about 3/4 cup): 113 calories, 2g total fat (0g sat fat), 580mg sodium, 10g carbs, 1g fiber, 4.5g sugars, 15g protein Green Plan SmartPoints® value 2* Blue Plan (Freestyle™) SmartPoints® value 1* Purple Plan SmartPoints® value 1* Hot sauce + jalapeños + creamy tuna salad... It just works. Add a bunch of veggies, and get ready to chow down!
Ingredients: 1/2 cup fat-free mayonnaise 2 tsp. Tabasco Original Pepper Sauce Two 5-oz. cans albacore tuna in water, drained and flaked 1 cup seeded and chopped cucumber 1 cup seeded and chopped tomato 1/2 cup chopped onion 1/4 cup chopped jarred jalapeño slices 2 tbsp. chopped fresh cilantro Directions: In a medium-large bowl, thoroughly mix mayo with hot sauce. Add tuna and stir to coat. Add all remaining ingredients and mix well. Cover and refrigerate until chilled, about 1 hour, or eat immediately! MAKES 4 SERVINGS
1/6th of recipe (about 1 cup): 147 calories, 2.5g total fat (1g sat fat), 285mg sodium, 27g carbs, 3.5g fiber, 5.5g sugars, 6g protein Green Plan SmartPoints® value 4* Blue Plan (Freestyle™) SmartPoints® value 4* Purple Plan SmartPoints® value 2* Grilled veggies, spirally noodles, crumbly feta cheese, and a BBQ ranch sauce!?! It's all true, people... Ingredients: 4 1/2 oz. (about 1 3/4 cups) uncooked high-fiber rotini pasta 1 red bell pepper, halved lengthwise, stem and seeds removed 1 red onion, ends removed, cut into 1/2-inch slices (rings intact) 1 zucchini, stem end removed, halved lengthwise 1 ear corn, husk removed 1/2 cup crumbled reduced-fat feta cheese 1/4 cup chopped scallions 1/4 cup fat-free ranch dressing 2 tbsp. BBQ sauce with 45 calories or less per 2-tbsp. serving Directions: Cook pasta in a medium pot per package instructions, about 8 minutes. Drain and transfer to a large bowl. Bring a grill sprayed with nonstick spray to medium heat. Place pepper halves, onion slices (rings intact), zucchini halves, and ear of corn on the grill. Grill for 6 minutes with the grill cover down, rotating corn halfway through. Flip veggies. With the grill cover down, grill until fully cooked and blackened, about 6 more minutes, rotating corn halfway through. Chop veggies and remove corn kernels from the ear. Add to the large bowl. Add feta cheese and scallions, and lightly toss to mix. In a small bowl, mix ranch dressing with BBQ sauce. Add to the large bowl and toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate until chilled, about 1 hour. Enjoy! MAKES 6 SERVINGS
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John Nance Garner
From Conservapedia
|John Nance Garner
|32nd Vice-President of the United States
|Term of office
March 4, 1933 - January 20, 1941
|Political party
|Franklin D. Roosevelt
|Preceded by
|Charles Curtis
|Succeeded by
|Henry A. Wallace
| November 22, 1868
Red River County, Texas
| November 7, 1967
Uvalde, Texas
|Mariette Rheiner Garner
John Nance Garner (1868 - 1967) was the first Vice President under Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was Vice President from 1933 to 1941. He broke with Roosevelt in 1937 and led the fight against packing the Supreme Court, giving Roosevelt a smashing defeat.
He was of course dropped from the Democratic ticket in the 1940 election. He died at the age of 99.[1] He is famous for saying the vice presidency of the United States is "not worth a pitcher of warm spit."[2]
The Garner Museum in Uvalde, Texas, and Garner State Park near Concan, also in Uvalde County, are named in his honor.
Notes & References
- ↑ Fandex, Workman publishing, 2002.
- ↑ Morrow, Lance (1991), "The Strange Destiny Of a Vice President," Time Magazine, Monday, May. 20, 1991

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Verizon Retiring The Samsung Fascinate?
The Verizon Fascinate was the last Samsung Galaxy S variant to hit the U.S. and the carrier is doing its best to keep the phone up to date with software updates, even though some of them caused problems for users. Interestingly, Verizon is now listing the phone with a "retired" label.
You can see the red watermark embedded all over the device page. It says the phone is retired and so has already been removed from the carrier's online store. So what would they replace it with? Probably the Galaxy S II variant for Verizon (whether it will be called Samsung Galaxy S II, Function, Fascinate II or Stratosphere).


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It's said that each snowflake is different—unique and special in a way that distinguishes it from all others. We think the same can be said for Christmas memories. Sure, every family has tried and true traditions, but each year, each Christmas, brings a new reason to celebrate, a new year of memories to cherish. That's why an annual time capsule is a great way to commemorate the little details that make each Christmas a treasure of its own.
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Include items that capture the sights, sounds and smells of the season: your family's Christmas card or newsletter, an ornament memory book, printed photos, a DVD recording of the Christmas pageant, candlesticks used at dinner, handwritten gift tags, party invitations, ticket stubs from holiday productions, a store's ad featuring the year's hottest trends and gifts.
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Discussion in 'Wheels & Tires' started by Shyatt, Mar 6, 2008.
I see that these tires have gotten good reviews but what do you do for a spare???
I bought a spare wheel identical to what is on my car, a 17" sport wheel, and a 5th tire. i only put it in the rear of the car on long road trips. if i get a flat i have bmw roadside to tow me home. i'll take the risk rather than run those stinkin run flats.
Replacements for Run-flat Tires
I own a 2008 335ix with Continental run-flats (225/45 R17). The ride is just too harsh and I feel every little imperfection in the road surface. Can anyone recommend a replacement tire for my next set of tires ---tires that would give me a little softer ride but comparable handling and performance? Would the Goodyear F1's or Bridgestone Turanza's be a better choice?
Believe me the RFT Turanza's are even worse. Avoid the Bridgestones at all costs.
I second that. I replaced my Bridgestones with the Conti's. (Still not gutsy enough to try non-runflats w/o a spare though)
This is perhaps the only advantage of my wifes X3 - spare tire and non run flats.
At least it's a stick.
I would think after the fiasco that run flats have become that the next generation 3 series will return to conventional tires, or at least run flats + a spare. I drove my mom's 335i and I enjoy it a lot more than my 535i but without a spare, there is a zero percent chance of me replacing the 5 for a 3.
Run-flats just cost BMW another customer. A friend of mine just traded-in his 330i for an Audi A4. He said that once he drove the A4 with conventional tires he could never buy a car that forced run-flats down your throat. As much as I dislike the run-flats on my 335i coupe, the rest of the car (handling, accelaration, brakes) makes me reluctant to trade it in at this time. I just hope BMW comes to its senses before I'm ready for a new car next year or in 2011. Otherwise this will be my last BMW.
Easy solution is to put regular tires on it and carry some of that fix-a-flat stuff that people w/ no spare seem to be using with their regular tires.
Easy solution, but not an ideal solution. From what I have read and from my friend's experience, the suspension is tuned for the stiffer sidewall of the run-flat tire. Putting regular tires on compromises the suspension. The fact that tire manufactuers such as Toyo (I had their Proxes tires on other cars and loved them) has no plans to make run-flats speaks volumes.
Here's an option....
Has anyone with a run flat actually experienced a flat?
I wonder how the run flats actually work in the event of a flat. If you get a flat while driving, a puncture, you can probably drive home, or to work or to the garage before you lose all the pressure. What if you get a flat on the way to work or somewhere, but don't lose pressure and get an alarm. 8-12 hours later, you come out of work and now all the air pressure is gone. Can you get in and drive the 50 or whatever miles you can supposedly run with a run flat? Or, do you now need to use an air pump to get enough pressure to get home anyway?
If that is the case, are you truly any better off with run flats if in reality you need a sealant and pump kit anyway.
Otherwise, if you get a sidewall cut, you're probably in the same boat?
I experienced a flat about one block from my home in my 06 330i with the original RFT's. After checking all four tires, I found one down to 15 lbs per square inch. The tire was still at 15 lbs the next morning when I went to the tire store to have it fixed. As it turned out, I had a nail in the middle of the tread. I drove about 2 miles total without a problem but am not sure if I could have driven 50 miles as advertised. I drove only surface streets and was not able to detect any difference in the car's handling.
I left for work one morning and felt the front end kind of loose and as I picked up spedd the tire got real noisy. About 3 miles later the tire pressure warning system told me what I already knew. Drove to dealer and got new tire. Total miles driven was about 10 with the flat. From this one experience the car was drivable, but did not inspire much confidence, The pressure warning system was useless.
The car had only about 1000 miles on it.
We've had the E90 for 3 years now, and we've had three flats. The first two both had the low pressure alarm signal shortly after my wife drove out of the garage, so she came right back and took a different car. Each time the tire had between 20 and 25psi, so I just removed the wheel and took it to get patched. Both were nails in the main tread area, and the tire was never driven without air, hence it was fine to patch them.
The third time we were out of town with the car, and early on a Sunday morning got the warning again. Pulled right off the Interstate and into a BP station. The right rear had 24psi. I hunted the puncture and finally found it (the culprit didn't stay put). I pulled out the Griot's Garage plug kit I keep in the trunk, and with the tire on the car (hard to do), reamed out the puncture and plugged it. This took about 30 minutes. Filled with air, checked plug, and all was fine. The tire was almost ready for replacement anyway, but it was fine for another 2000 miles.
I pondered what the "typical" BMW owner was "supposed" to do on that Sunday morning...find a tire store that has a 255/35-18 Runflat in stock (yeah, right) or have the car towed to a dealer to be "worked on" (i.e. owner worked over with outrageous price for a new tire) the following day? Pretty crazy. Hence the reason I carry the Griot's plug kit. I have a kit in the M5 too since it doesn't have a spare but instead the "M-mobility" repair kit. I also have that neat, compact BMW jack bag now, so it's in the car too to make it easier to plug a tire if needed. This is the 6th year I've had the M5 and no flats so far (probably shouldn't have said that).
It still boils down to this: we are BMW and we know what's best for you, even if it is not. I would gladly pay extra to be able to factory order a BMW with regular tires, a jack and a spare, but this is not an option. As a matter of fact, there are no options other than what BMW allows. This attitude will get them someday!!!
Dumpin' the RFT's
I just bought an '07 335i Sport/Prem with 26k miles on it from a dealer in San Antonio. As part of the price I negotiated a new set of non-runflat tires be installed. They installed the same Bridgestone Potenza tire but in the normal model vs the (BMWNA dictated) RFT's. They said their internal price for these was F-250 / R- 280 each versus over 400 each for the RFT's. They offered the old set to me since they have no use for them, so I shipped the fronts home as they were in good condition for RFT's. The rears were shot at 26k miles.
While there, I drove the salesman's '09 same model and the tires felt like we were riding on Fred Flintstone's. After the return trip to Virginia via Miami and a total run of 2,800 miles I can say the new Potenzas ride and stick great. The only concern was not having a spare so I bought a couple cans of fix-a-flat, an air pump and basic tools for fixing flats. Should be all I need.
With an E30M3 and an E36 M3 in the garage (both are currently on BFG G-Force Sports) I still found the 335's handling and power with the Potenzas to be addicting. We'll see how long the new set of Potenzas last...
After trying sets of Pilot Sports, Yoko ES100, Kumho Ecsta MX and Sumitomo HTRZ2, I'm pleased with the total value of the BFG g-Force Sports on both the E36 and E30 so far. The Potenzas will be put to the test in the coming months.
John R
Yes and it sucked. See my posts a few weeks ago.
Thankfully my 5 has a spare and I was in town for the holidays. I agree with others who say the next 3 series better have a spare because I hate to see BMW losing ground to the competition on something so basic and essential.
So, you wouldn't see any benefit over regular tires with a sealant / pump?
I'm thinking that is my solution at replacement time.....
RFT Flat...
When I took delivery of my brand new vehicle (335i coupe with all the bells & whistles, including the 19" wheel/tire option), I had the TPM sensor go off within 10 minutes of ownership. Bottom line: the RR tire was improperly installed at the factory (minor tearing as the bead was seated on the rim), causing a 20 PSI dump while driving at freeway speeds. I took delivery of my vehicle late on a Saturday afternoon, and when I finally realized what was going on, the service department had already closed for the weekend and I was first in line the following Monday with my brand new car. Two hours later, a new tire was installed and covered under warranty - - not a great way for a newbee BMW owner to begin his relationship with "the ultimate driving machine"...
I love my car, and knew full well that the ride would be rather harsh with the 19" sport wheel/tire package, but am extremely cautious and aware of the numerous potholes here on the Los Angeles roadways. When I was finalizing the contract on my purchase, the finance guy put on a full court press regarding the wheel/tire insurance plan, and pretty much told me (point blank) that I could expect several expensive wheel & tire replacements in my near future.
Just my 2 cents...
I'd like to have the same stuff in my trunk you have in yours. I bought a new 328i in October and have concluded I REALLY do not like the concept of run flats. In fact, I'm fearful of taking the vehicle on any trip of substance.
I found the Griot's plug kit you mentioned on their website. However, exactly what is the "BMW jack bag" you referred to and where did you buy it?
Many thanks for any help.
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Rabbis and Kabbalah mystics recite prayers to ward off swine flu
A group of rabbis and Jewish mystics have taken to the skies over Israel, praying and blowing ceremonial horns in a plane to ward off swine flu.
About 50 religious leaders circled over the country on Monday, chanting prayers and blowing horns, called shofars.
The flight's aim was "to stop the pandemic so people will stop dying from it", Rabbi Yitzhak Batzri was quoted as saying in Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
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"We are certain that, thanks to the prayer, the danger is already behind us," added Mr Batzri was quoted as saying.
Television footage showed rabbis in black hats rocking backwards and forwards as they read prayers from Kabbalah, a form of Jewish mysticism which counts the singer Madonna among its devotees.
The shofar is the horn of a ram, and is used to mark major religious occasions in Judaism.
With so many examples of religious fucktardery you'd think atheists wouldn't be the only ones calling "Bullshit!" But there's a blind spot for one's religion that rationalizes one's religious bullshit. No different than:
1. Eating a stale cracker and sipping ridiculously sweet wine will get you into heaven
2. Wearing special underwear will protect you from evil
3. Cracking your spine or sticking needles under your skin will cure whatever ails you.
4. The movement of celestial bodies has a direct effect on your life
If I'm wrong about something I'm happy to be corrected, but stunts like this we're supposed to respect since it's done in the name of religion. WTF, Chuck!? False hope for the stupid?
I figured it out.
Yahweh is something of an elderly deity.
His hearing isn't what it used to be and he is becoming cranky and forgetful.
The good Rabbis have taken notice of this and shrewdely decided to get as close to God as they can so their prayers are easier to be heard.
I've been told that their next endeavor will be to shoot a rocket into space crammed full of Hasidic Jews with air horns.
This is a comment on the Flying Rabbi extravaganza that claims to be a true story.
I and a co-worker were working in a temple one day when we heard a noise coming from the rabbi's office. The maintenance guy told us it was "just the rabbi blowing the shofar". Without missing a beat, my co-worker said, "it doesn't sound like he likes it."
When I clicked on this topic it was because I thought it said, 'Flying Rabbits to the Rescue.' That would be much more believable. You know, sometimes pets save their family from a burning house or something and I thought maybe . . . oh, never mind, forget it.
Shofar…so good…..I guess.
If the rabbi's get tired of blowing their shofar's they can blow me for awhile.
Shofar…so good…..I guess.
If the rabbi's get tired of blowing their shofar's they can blow me for awhile.
Hey man, whatever floats your boat or clonches your snoozle.
I'm not judging, but blown by a Rabbi?
In the opening photo, I don't think that's a shofar. The other passengers wouldn't put up with the blare. I think it's a beverage funnel, a new feature on Israeli Airlines. It enables the stewardess to pour drinks directly into passengers, reducing the risk of spillage.
OK then, my shofar runneth over. Beverage funnel, douche nozzle, whats the difference? It's wacky people playing with wacky impliments.


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By Doug Lyfe /From Mask Magazine
"This ain't no civil war. We ain't civilized no more!"
"The time has come for the blood to run into the streets paved with gold. We have lived in the zoo of the ghetto for so long. We must move into the suburbs and punish the rich for their ignorance. For the horror of death that is part of our life in our neighborhood and give them a taste of the same."
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"The FBI just came to talk to you," my friend deadpanned over the phone. My heart immediately started beating faster. "Fuck," I thought, "I always thought this day would come." I was at my girlfriend's house — she had already left to go to school and I was getting ready for work. As I sat down to collect myself, my friend told me that two FBI agents had come by my former home looking for me. When my friend asked who they were, they responded that they were with the FBI and gave him a card. He told them I wasn't there, so they got back into their black SUV and left.
After we hung up I rushed out of the house and headed over to the home of a former member of the Black Panther Party — someone that had lived through the FBI's COINTELPRO program, which targeted revolutionary groups in the 1960s and 1970s. With the help of a lot of nicotine and some encouraging words, I talked to several friends and lawyers and got an appointment to see an attorney. Fearing that the feds would be coming to my parents' house next, I called them and broke the news. They were just as shocked as I was, but also not that surprised.
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Gee wins 12th, Bisons win 8-straight
Friday wasn't a record-breaking night for Dillon Gee, but it was still a good night for the righty and the Bisons.
Buffalo won their eighth straight game and Gee improved to 12-7 on the season with a 9-4 victory over the Red Sox from McCoy Stadium. Coupled with a Louisville loss in Columbus and the Herd is now just three games out of the wild card spot.
The Bats had a half-game lead over the Clippers heading into Friday's action. Columbus pulled back into the top spot in the IL West division with a 12-4 victory of their own.
Gee had a chance at team history against the PawSox, but his inevitable date with the Bisons record books will have to wait one more start. Five strikeouts shy of the team's single-season record, Gee fanned four in five innings of work. He now has an International League-best 136 punchouts, one shy of the Bisons modern era record set of 137 in 1990 by Vicente Palacios.
Still, Gee was good enough to earn his 12th win of the season. That ties him with Durham's Jeremy Hellickson and Richard De Los Santos for the league lead. It's the most wins in a season by a Bisons pitcher since Jeremy Guthrie was 12-10 in 2005.
Friday's game was a story of the big innings that did, and didn't, happen. The Bisons scored four runs in the third inning as Nick Evans plated a run and Kirk Nieuwenhuis hit a three-run home run. Pawtucket responded with three more in the bottom of the third off Gee to make it 4-3.
The Bisons then batted around in the fourth to put three more runs on the board. Lucas Duda singled home two and Evans doubled home Justin Turner for the 7-3 edge.
That was the score in the seventh when Pawtucket loaded the bases with nobody out against the Bisons bullpen. Mike O'Connor slammed the door shut on the opportunity by striking out Niuman Romero and Lars Anderson before giving way to Sean Green. The side-winding righty finished the job by striking out Yamaico Navarro to end the threat.
Duda provided the extra insurance for the Herd with a two-run home run in the eighth. The Triple-A rookie now has 16 blasts in only 51 games this year.
BISONS NOTES: Lucas Duda has hit in 10 straight games. He has averaged .395 (15-38) with three home runs and 12RBI over the stretch…The Bisons pitching staff has not allowed a home run in its last 121.1 innings of work. That stretch goes all the way back to July 29 in Columbus…The Mets announced Friday night that they have selected the contract of Bisons starter Pat Misch. New York has optioned Raul Valdes and Ryota Igarashi to the Herd.


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All About the Benjamin
Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima made a hundred dollars the hard way: with a staff of 10,000 people distributed across the globe. Or maybe the easy way, depending on how you look at it. In 2007, they posted a mysterious assignment on Amazon's Mechanical Turk--a crowdsourcing business site that lets companies offer piecemeal jobs for tiny bits of cash--asking potential employees to reproduce a greenish abstraction using a customized drawing tool; each sketcher received one cent in return for their work. Unknown to this invisible workforce, each image was 1/10,000 of a picture of a $100 bill; upon completion, the whole emerged from a mosaic of its hand-drawn parts. Continuing the numerical theme, life-sized digital prints of the work are now available at their site Ten Thousand Cents for $100 a pop, with proceeds going to One Laptop per Child (a charity originally based on the goal of the "$100 Laptop"). This isn't Koblin's first foray into collaborative artmaking with Mechanical Turk: in 2006, he similarly produced The Sheep Market, a collection of 10,000 individual black-and-white drawings, each one commissioned for two cents a piece with the simple instruction to "draw a sheep facing left." Maybe that request was prescient, given that Ten Thousand Cents made unwitting activists out of an anonymous flock of online workers. - Ed Halter
Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima, Ten Thousand Cents, 2008
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Touting the theme of "Impakt yourspace," the latest edition of Utrecht's Impakt Festival takes on the impact of Web 2.0 through its typically tightly-organized set of panels and curated programs of film, video, new media and performance. The central event, "Hybrid Playground," presents variations by Dutch artists on the melding of social networks and physical spaces. Here, attendees will experience KKEP's ParaPlay project, a democratic iTunes happening, and Bliin, which enables mobile phone users to post media to shared geographic maps; NetNiet.org's Gifted, a real-time phone-enabled social judgment system; and Alchemyst's open-source Roomware, which detects phone users and links their identity to networked personal profiles. Other internet-aware events include tech-inflected animations by painter Federico Solmi and "Self-Confession vs. Exploitation" a program of film and video diaries ranging from Joyce Wieland's 8mm work of the 1960s to modern-day web-based autobiographies. In perhaps the most self-referential move of all, Impakt will convene a panel on "The Future of Festivals" with organizers from Migrating Forms, Submarineand tank.tv, exploring what the role of live media events should be in the light of our increasingly online social world. - Ed Halter
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The Club Who Was Thursday
Bearing a deceptively straightforward name, The Thursday Club at Goldsmiths College, University of London plays host to a wide range of technologist-artists for its recently-announced Summer Season; in upcoming weeks, the Club's guests will explore such diverse topics as narrative interactivity, biofeedback, coded textiles and "strategic walking." On April 17, Rachel Beth Egenhoefer presents works in progress from her ongoing art-melds of knitting and coding, including a knit zoetrope and knitting with the Wii. Writers Kate Pullinger and Chris Joseph talk about their "networked book" Flight Paths on April 24; a novel to be based partially on strange-but-true occurrences of immigrant airline stowaways tragically plummeting to earth, Flight Paths is currently crowdsourcing research and ideas in its online forum. May 8th brings two artists who use medical technologies to esthetic ends: Camille Baker, whose MINDTouch combines biofeedback and mobile phones to create live performances, and Marilene Oliver, who creates artworks with MRI and CT scanning data. Future clubbers include E:vent organizers Colm Lally and Verina Gfader, artist/writer Richard Colson, and "live coders" Alex McLean and Dave Griffiths. - Ed Halter
Image Credit: Rachel Beth Egenhoefer, Detail of Knit Zoetrope (Work in Progress)
ArtFagCity's Paddy Johnson couldn't have picked a more damning category in which to place British painter Dan Proops--"BoingBoing artist"-- glossing that mega-blog's indiscriminate penchant for tiki-bar kitsch, airbrushed girlies and steampunked everything as merely "art pabulum for readers who can clearly handle more." To be sure, Proops's work does seem unduly suited to geek-pandering, offering quick-glance commentary on medias new and old through easy-to-get juxtapositions: Proops's oil paintings depict familiar art-historical subjects with random parts pixilated (as if censored) or "desktop" images of iconic images, complete with trashcans and folders at their margins. To be fair, one must withhold ultimate judgment until seeing the work in physical form, but even online reproductions suggest that Proops' paintings, evidently bereft of any compelling composition or technique to offset their facile gimmicks, suffer from the dull ache of YBA hangover. If you can't travel to London to see them in Proops's upcoming show Sam's Desktop III, then be sure to catch them sometime in the future, when they will be displayed in the spacious living rooms of Hawaiian-shirted IT dudes with more money than taste. - Ed Halter
Image: Dan Proops, Caravaggio, Censored, 2007
The Rematerialization of Art
Marx and Engels claimed that capitalism's "constant revolutionizing of production" ultimately means "all that is solid melts into air." The contemporary art market, however, describes an opposite process: innovations such as the flat-screen monitor, the digital print, and the editioned DVD, have helped transform immaterial forms like video and net.art into a new generation of physical, sellable objects. Underscoring the gallery-friendly moment, "Holy Fire: Art of the Digital Age" at Bruxelles's iMAL Center for Digital Cultures and Technology presents a show of works already for sale on the art market. While it's not surprising to find a younger crew who came of age within the current market (Eddo Stern, Cory Arcangel, Paul Slocum), more significant are the first-generation net.art names who have ditched their former outsider status and joined the commercial club: note the inclusion of Jodi, Vuk Cosic, Alexei Shulgin, and Olia Lialina, as well as later, politically pointed artists like 0100101110101101.ORG and Joan Leandre. (As corollary, observe that old media have been effected as well as new: a similar if less totalizing movement towards object-production has taken hold within the formerly market-excluded world of experimental filmmaking.) Holy Fire curators Yves Bernard and Domenico Quaranta say that to speak of new media art "doesn't really make sense today," since "all contemporary art is, someway, new media art" and many artists prefer to state their concern as "just art." With a panel moderated by Patrick Lichty of anti-corporate hoaxsters The Yes Men, the debate on that claim is guaranteed to be lively. - Ed Halter
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Mommy Psychic Raises Kids, Communes With Dead
Mom Rebecca Rosen's normal home life belies extraordinary day job as psychic.
Feb. 2, 2010 -- Spend any morning with Rebecca Rosen of Denver and you'll see she has a spirited household.
There's 1-year-old Sam, the youngest, shaking his rattle and playing with blocks. There's Jakob, 5, grabbing his lunch and heading out the door for school.
What's a little less obvious in the course of a morning with Rosen are the spirits she told us she hears in her head.
"Right around you," she tells a visitor, "are some dead loved ones. I will go through them, there's three of them."
Right around you. Right around her. Right around all of us. This is Rebecca's reality, and her profession: communicating with the dead.
During business hours she reports to the office like any ordinary professional. But instead of taking calls or filing reports, she works as a psychic medium.
Watch the full story tonight on "Nightline" at 11:35 p.m. ET
"Nightline" sat in the other day on a session between Rosen and two of her regular clients, Shelly and Michael Elick. Our purpose was not to debunk or defend what Rosen does but to see what it is to believe in an invisible world that is trying to make contact.
"I'm going to say a protection prayer to make sure it's good energy coming through," Rosen said. This is how she always starts. And then, within seconds, in a matter-of-fact way, Rebecca began to relay messages from beyond.
The Elicks didn't say much, because why talk when the dead are speaking, especially when they seem to know what they're talking about?
"I'm supposed to bring up the ring," Rosen said. "Did you recently give her a new ring?"
"Yeah," said Shelly Elick, with a laugh.
"Oh Lord," said Michael Elick.
"Your father inspired him to do that," Rosen told Shelly. "[Your father] is more or less saying good work, he's patting you on the back. You will look at [the ring] differently now. That is your father's love and your husband's love."
In such sessions, only Rebecca hears the beyond -- except she says it's not really hearing.
"I do get words, but I have to say there are no sentences," she said. "It would make my life and job so much easier if they talked, actually voices in sentences. What it is it's almost like you're on the phone with a friend and you hang up and you're replaying the conversation in your mind. You can hear their voice but it's coming through your mind's voice. That's what it's like.
"People like to think it's a very Hollywood-type experience where you're actually seeing a dead body standing there and hearing their voice. They don't have bodies, they don't have voices."
'Like the Girl Next Door'
Rosen's sessions include what she calls validations -- evidence that the spirits are for real -- by eliciting some information that only the client could know.
"Feathers are coming up, I don't, I think that's your dad," said Rosen. "He's showing me finding a feather. Did your daughter, is she 2 or 3, did she?"
"Yeah, I thought it was from her boa," said Shelly Elkin. "She found a feather yesterday and brought it to me. It was purple." "That was from your dad," said Rosen.
"OK," said Shelly.
"Anyone who knows me would say I'm like the girl next door," said Rosen, who doesn't dress the part of a gypsy teller: hoop earrings, yes, but no long-flowing robes and the scarves. "That's not me," said Rosen.
Rosen said that she will go out with her kids and Brian, her husband, and thing will happen that diners at other tables don't quite register. When Rebecca gets close -- because, she says, proximity triggers psychic activity -- the other diners' dead relatives will start knocking with messages to pass on. But she never works during family time, she says.
"If I wanted to I could, I could go into it, but I'm ignoring it if it is there and I'm so distracted with my kids that it's virtually impossible for me to tune in," she said.
All this started when Rosen was a sister in Kappa Alpha Theta sorority at the University of Florida. She had never heard a peep from the spirit world, she said.
"I did not grow up in a family that was into spiritual stuff," she said. "I was raised with a belief in God. I was raised as a conservative Jew. But nobody talked about psychics, that was way out of our comfort zone."
But in the middle of her sophomore year, Rosen had a bout of depression -- and that's when it happened, she said.
"I was journaling, and I always journal, since high school," Rosen said. "And all of a sudden this energy started coming through me, writing to me, but I could hear it in my head first. She was telling me she was my dead grandmother and telling me that she was here to save me from going down the same road of depression that she went down.
"I thought I was going crazy and making this up, and I know she read my thoughts and therefore [she] went ahead and offered three pieces of information that only my father would know. So I ran out of the bookstore, called my father and he was in complete shock, because the information she said were pieces he had never shared with anybody, including my mom."
'Mommy Brain'
The experience made Rosen a believer. In the years since she has explored Eastern philosophies and worked at fine-tuning her ability to hear the other side.
"I make sure I have at least a half-hour to meditate" before work, Rosen said, "so I can clear my head and get out of my Mommy brain and focus on the work."
Through a full work week with Rosen, with several different clients, we saw what seemed like "hits."
"He wants me to bring up, do you have a knee or leg problem?" Rosen asked a client named David. "He's talking about you taking it easy. Do you know what he's talking about?"
"Oh yeah," said David. "I have a bum knee."
"Does somebody have a stuffed pig animal?" Rosen asked a client named Jennifer.
"Well, my daughter just went to the stock show last night and came home talking about the pigs," Jennifer replied.
Then "Nightline" put together a group of women, none of whom had ever met Rosen. We asked for names of people members of the group hoped to contact. One participant, Jane, said she wanted to hear from her grandfather, Marvin.
During the session, a name began to come to Rosen. "Martin?" she suggested. "Martin... Marvin?"
Jane was flabbergasted.
And there were more successes with the same group.
"Did you lose a baby?" Rosen asked one woman, Carla.
"Yeah," Carla replied.
"The soul is with her," said Rosen. "Was it a boy?"
"I don't know."
"I think it's a boy. She's holding this little one trying to say ... do you have two living kids?"
The answer was yes.
Next Rosen talked to Jane. "He keeps showing me two, two, two... which means February," Rosen said. "What is in February? [The] second?
"My birthday!" said Jane.
"OK, so he keeps showing me that," said Rosen.
Next up was Pamela.
"Was he in the service?" Rosen asks. He was. "He's showing me [he's] proud of what he did here."
Then a reporter had a one-on-one session. There were more hits -- and some pretty clean ones at that.
"Did you used to work as a pizza boy?"
"Did you have trouble with the lights in a hotel room recently?"
"Yes." (A weird question, but we did have exactly that happen a few week back).
But to be honest, through most of the rest of the conversation -- during which Rosen said I was talking with my dad and grandfather -- the psychic said a good amount that really didn't fit terribly well. And then her style was to start exploring.
We saw that happen many other times during the week.
"This [is] about your wife's side of the family as well," she told one man, David.
"I need to clarify something in terms of wife, I'm not married," he replied.
"You're not married. But you have an ex-wife..."
"No, said David.
To Jennifer: "By any chance is your daughter named after Margaret? The answer: No.
To Carrie: "I have to start over here, I'm pretty sure this is for you. I have two males that are popping in very strongly, your Dad has passed, correct? (Carrie: "My Dad, no.")
To Pamela: "Who's the rocky road? Like loves Rocky Road? Chocolate? ... Did somebody just give you a box of chocolates? To which Pamela just shakes her head.
'It's Always Under Attack'
None of the clients we saw in a week doubted that Rebecca was short of authentic, and all came away with a badly needed spiritual uplift.
"I've been very fortunate in that directly and personally I have not had too many [hostile] encounters," Rosen said. "But, with the field that I'm in, it's always under attack. People say you're mind-reading, cold reading and I just smile and 'You know what, I'm not here to prove to the skeptics that this is real.'"
Rosen explained cold reading.
"Cold reading is simply, you know, using body language, and you know, let's say Rose is a common name, so I throw out Rose because somebody is going to have a Rose who died," she said.
It's clear there is no shortage of people who feel the need for the kind of connection they feel they get in Rebecca's office. Her fame is growing. She was featured in a photo shoot for Denver magazine and can charge $500 for a full hour. She has celebrity clients like Courtney Cox and Jennifer Aniston who send Christmas cards. People phone her for consultations, and she's got a book, "Spirited," coming out, which she wrote to teach other people how to do what she does for themselves.
"Everybody has the ability to tap into intuition for themselves, not everybody has the ability to tap into intuition and talk to spirits for other people," said Rosen.
And that, she says, is why she what she does. She believes she was meant for it.
"I love it because I feel I'm doing such a service, not only for the living, but for these souls," she said.
Rosen said that despite perceptions, her work is not spooky. "It is not and I'll tell you why," she said. "What I work with are souls who are happily crossed over on the other side, if you want to call it heaven. And it's usually the living who are not at peace and they're peeking in and seeing that their loved ones here are suffering. They're grieving and so they want to help them find some closure and resolution, OK? So the spirits I work with are loving and kind and funny."
And they have a lot they want to say, Rosen tells us, to those who know how to listen. So she does. But remember, she's a mom -- it's business hours only.


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Harrah's Baltimore promises thousands of jobs
Ceasars introduces new general manager
The man that's set to lead Baltimore's long-awaited casino comes from Louisiana with 18 years of experience in the industry -- and there's already talk of expanding the project that's set to be built by M&T Bank Stadium.
"In a few months, 2,000 construction workers will be here building Harrah's Baltimore," said Chad Barnhill, general manager of Harrah's Baltimore.
Along with the construction jobs, Barnhill said the casino will hire 1,200 permanent employees, and the facility will have more than 3,700 video slot machines.
"The great thing about building a casino in downtown Baltimore is we understand we're going to be a piece of the overall pod," Barnhill said. "So, when people come to Baltimore, we want, obviously, Harrah's to be part of that, but there are so many great aspects of coming to Baltimore. We're going to be one piece of that."
"That's one of the things that makes me excited about this project is recognizing this particular area. It definitely appears that it's sort of ignored as an area of Baltimore, one that is in definite need of revitalization," said Maria Meckett, an investor.
"I'm extremely excited for what the casino will mean for this particular area. When the casino is here it will make way for other types of businesses," Barnhill said.
Developers are already looking to add about 500 more employees along with table games, such as poker and blackjack, provided Question 7 on the November ballot gets voter approval.
Question 7 calls for expanding gaming in Maryland and opening another casino in Prince George's County. But with 67 percent of the revenue supposedly going to the state, some skeptics said they worry about the allotment for education funding.
"The biggest skepticism you overhear is about what happened with the lottery money. It was talked about, it was campaigned on and so forth, but not one single syllable was put in the law. This money for the education and the Education Trust Fund is in the law," Baltimore City Delegate Melvin Stukes, D-District 44.
The $375 million project is scheduled to open in 2014.
"It's about 25 years overdue as far as I'm concerned. We've been losing too much money to surrounding states because of the gaming issue, and I'm glad to see us finally be able to get here and begin to put a tourniquet on the hemorrhage that we have been losing anywhere from $600 million to $800 million a year," Stukes said.
The developer is working with the city to establish a traffic plan before the casino opens.


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Forget virgin daiquiris, The Beauty of Life is all about the gorgeous polishes from the new Extra Virgin Collection from Dashing Diva!
Periodic Style's Jeanne goes back to school at Sephora University!
Toya of The Life of A Ladybug asks "What's your 'thing' right now?"
Find out which organic shower gel, leaves Christine's hubby in a woodsy lather...at Beauty in Real Life.
Answering the complicated question, "What does organic mean?", A Mom in Red High Heels helps clear away the confusion.
Budget Beauty Love takes a look at the new Sally Hansen Natural Beauty foundation and primer and isn't too thrilled.
Makeup Junkie finds a new best friend in Mischo Beauty has a reader who shares her favorite organic conditioner!
New Green Line: Sally Hansen Natural Beauty Inspired by Carmindy
Makeup artist Carmindy has partnered with Sally Hansen to bring us a natural makeup line that is affordable and created with natural ingredients and antioxidants. All the products are completely paraben-free.
So far, they don't seem easy to find. If you don't have a CVS pharmacy near you (we don't have them here, either), you might be out of luck. You can always order online, though, although I would never recommend trying out a new line without actually seeing it first.
Ulta has them online, but reports seem to be mixed about finding the line in stores. However, if you're interested, there is an Ulta coupon for $3.50 off a $10 purchase with the coupon code 92524.
Green Company Profile: Pangea Organics
A very hip and eco-conscious company that even has music releases on their website! Which are quite good, really. Do check them out.
Pangea says that you have only one body and one Earth, and they will do their best to take care of both. A great philosophy which is backed up by some truly amazing products.
Pangea promises to use only 100% plant-based ingredients, each of which is clearly on their bottles. If it's not on the label, it's not in there. Petroleum products are not used, instead the focus is on quality organic and sustainable herbs and essential oils, many of which are grown here in the United States. They saponify (convert into soap by treating with an alkali) their oils to create products that lather well without the use of petroleum-based ingredients. These ingredients also begin to biodegrade within 48 hours of use.
Pangea follows the trifecta of facial skincare: cleanse, tone, moisturize. A complete line of cleansers, scrubs, toners, and creams take care of dry, normal, and oily (or demanding, as Pangea's website puts it!). A complete body care line includes bar soaps, liquid soaps, shower gels, lotions and oils. Ingredients run the range from fennel to ylang ylang, with benefits listed for each. All of which look like they should be on my bathroom shelf.
The best part of it all is the packaging. All made with a Zero Waste process with 100% post consumer paper. Plus, embedded in each are organic seeds such as sweet basil and amaranth. Just soak the box in water for a minute and plant!
So, it's on to the wish list!
- Oatmeal with Italian Bergamot Bar Soap
- Pyrenees Lavender with Cardamom Body Oil
- Egyptian Geranium with Adzuki Bean and Cranberry
Cargo Plantlove Botanical Lipstick
With 20 glossy shades, many "designed" by celebrities and a few inspired by places of ecological beauty, Cargo's Plant Love line is cool enough on it's own. But what makes this even cooler is that the case is completely biodegradable and made of corn. Plant it in the ground, and it will really grow flowers. Wildflower seeds are embedded in the case. Eco-friendly indeed!\
I Am Not a Paper Cup
More green goodness! Instead of always using a Starbucks paper cup (even if they are mostly recycled and eco-friendly, what with their soy ink and all that), how about a ceramic reusable cup with travel lid? A great way to reduce waste while still getting your coffee on, yes? (via FashionKitty)
Green Company Profile: Lush Cosmetics
No doubt about it, Lush is my favorite "green" company. You really can't turn around in my house without bumping into something made by Lush: we have bath bombs, shampoo, shower gel, lotion, cuticle cream, shaving cream, lip balms, and a huge basket of other stuff too. I've never been unhappy with a Lush purchase, and I always make a point of stopping in anytime I'm in a city that is lucky enough to have one.
But what are they really all about, other than fantastic-smelling products? From their website:
We believe in making effective products out of fresh organic* fruit and vegetables, the finest essential oils and safe synthetics, without animal ingredients, and in writing the quantitative list on the outside.And be sure to check out their very informative page on the ingredients they use.
We also believe in buying only from companies that test for safety without the involvement of animals and in testing our products on humans.
We believe in making our own fresh* products by hand, printing our own labels and making our own fragrances.
We believe in long candlelit baths, massage, filling the house with perfume and in the right to make mistakes, lose everything and start again.
We believe that our products should be good value, that we make a profit and that the customer is always right.
*We also believe words like "fresh" and "organic" have honest meaning beyond marketing.
It would be impossible to get together a wish list, because really, I'd like one of everything please, thank you. But, since it's Earth Day, I thought I'd focus on one product that gives back.
Charity Pot is a body lotion made from natural oils and fair trade cocoa butter, and is scented with ylang ylang, geranium, and marigold. But the best part about this cream is the good it does. According to Lush, "Every penny of the retail price (excluding taxes) goes directly into a charitable fund to support animal rights, environmental protection and humanitarian concerns."
And really, if you need something else to buy, here are my top five.
- Alkmaar soap
- Jasmine and Henna Fluff Eaze
- Creamy Candy Bath Melt
- Honey Trap Lip Balm
- Buffy: Exfoliating Body Butter
Earth Day: Canvas Totes
Now would be a great time to commit to reducing your carbon footprint on the Earth. Start with something simple: canvas tote bags instead of grocery store plastic ones. Here are a few picks:
Green Company Profile: Josie Maran Cosmetics
No doubt you have seen some press for Josie Maran cosmetics. She has been featured in Allure, Domino, Elle, Shape, and Glamour, among others. A former model, Josie Maran decided to take her love of makeup to a more responsible level. From the website:
This isn't the first time that Josie Maran has been the face of a cosmetics company. Her lucrative contract as the international spokes-model for the wildly popular brand Maybelline lasted for an unprecedented ten years.What I like about the line is the impressive collection of eye shadows. Occasionally in a natural or mineral line of cosmetics, your choices for vibrant eye shades are somewhat limited. Not so in this case:
As a top model, Josie learned about makeup from the best in the business. While world-famous makeup artists worked their magic on her, she paid attention. She learned about the transformative power of makeup, and how just a little can do a lot. She learned what works and what doesn't, which ingredients to seek out and which to avoid.
Over time, Josie noticed a hole in the market. It was hard to find products that matched her approach to life - products that are pure and gentle, that contain no toxins or ingredients that damage the planet. The few earth-friendly products she found were lacking the sophistication and the level of luxury she craved.
Josie knew that if she wanted products that met these high standards, other women would want them too. So in 2006 Josie set out to create her own makeup line.
Josie Maran Cosmetics is arriving at the perfect time. Today's woman is discriminating and asks a lot of the products she buys. She's unwilling to compromise style, beauty, quality or caring for the planet. Now she can have all of these things and have her makeup, too.
The philosophy of Josie Maran Cosmetics comes from Josie herself. It's a balance of her low maintenance, go-with-the-flow attitude and her refined, worldly taste. "I know exactly what I like. My tastes are very specific," Josie says. "I crave quality, whether it's the best fabric, the best food, or the best makeup. I try to surround myself with the best of everything." Josie's passion for everything she does is evident in the line. Every element, from the packaging to the makeup shades, is a reflection of her unique sensibility.
The Josie Maran Cosmetics look is healthy, natural and vibrant. It's about enhancing, not covering. It's about youthful, glowing skin. "What most women don't realize is that when models and actresses look fresh-faced and makeup-free, it's because they know how to apply their makeup to make it look that way," Josie explains. "I want to open the vault on all the tips and tricks I've learned in the makeup chair. I've seen how makeup can make a person feel great. I want to share that with women everywhere."
I could certainly use most, if not all of these shades. Especially Cappucino, Chianti, Pewter, and Smoke.
On to the wishlist!
- My Favorite Powders Palette
- Finger Paints
- Wildflower Powder Palette: the 2008 spring collection
Green Company Profile: Gabriel Cosmetics
Gabriel Cosmetics not only does a fantastic line of makeup, but also a great skin care line that is all natural and created with pure botanicals.
Here is the background on Gabriel Cosmetics:
And here is the wishlist:
Gabriel Cosmetics was conceived and developed by Gabriel DeSantino, CEO and founder of Gabriel Cosmetics, Inc. Inspiration for the line was drawn from generations of family tradition and knowledge of the healing properties of the sea.
As a child, Gabriel had observed his grandmother making homeopathic cosmetics from seaweed, kelp and herbs that he had helped her gather at her home by the ocean in
. As a naturopath and herbalist, his grandmother was knowledgeable of the many healing and revitalizing properties of the ocean plant life. As Gabriel grew older and entered the field of beauty, he became even more aware of how young and unlined her skin remained. Mexico
His grandmother passed on her wisdom of the healing benefits of the sea to Gabriel. He learned how the right combination of sea-derived botanicals not only revitalize the skin and keep it looking younger, but also reduce stress and help balance and remineralize the body in a natural and pleasant manner. This knowledge spurred his research further leading Gabriel to a European Bio-Chemist with 30 years experience in developing botanical formulations.
The Gabriel skincare line has been under extensive development since1991. All formulations have been stringently tested on a panel of over 150 people comprised of all skin types, male and female, all ages, nationalities, and professions. The results of this testing were spectacular, as no contraindicative or adverse skin reactions were observed on any of the subjects. On the contrary, noticeable improvements were noted after only a few days use.
What makes Gabriel Cosmetics different from other seemingly similar products on the market? Simply this- Gabriel products are made from 100% natural ingredients. No synthetic chemicals or animal by-products are utilized and no testing is ever done on animals. These environmentally safe products contain a higher percentage of active ingredients than any other similar products.
Green Company Profile: Perfect Organics
Here is how Perfect Organics describes themselves:
Our mission is simple: to create wholesome organic, vegan, multi-use products unrivaled in perfection, purity and effectiveness for men, women, and children. We know that what you put on your skin has to be perfect because it can be easily absorbed directly into your body –that's why you will never find chemical additives, artificial ingredients, fillers or synthetic preservatives of any kind in Perfect Organics.™
We proudly offer pure organic products composed of the world's finest ingredients that are expertly formulated and gently processed to maintain the integrity of every ingredient for the long-term health and beauty of your skin, body, and the environment. Our incredibly luxurious, vitamin rich and rejuvenating organic products smell amazing, feel wonderful and enhance, nourish, and protect your skin for a beautiful today and a perfect tomorrow.
Perfect Organics has been mentioned in the following magazines:
- Newsweek
- Elle
- Women's Wear Daily
- Domino
But back to the beauty. Here is our wishlist from Perfect Organics:
- Ultimate Body Scrub in hazelnut coffee
- Shea Butter Lip Balm in mint
- Body Glow in mandarin rose coconut
Carol's Daughter
In the early 1990's, Brooklyn native Lisa Price (a.k.a. Carol's daughter) began experimenting with fragrance, essential oils and natural moisturizers to make gifts for her family and friends. Soon after she packaged her home-spun creations, word spread like wildfire and the demand for her unparalleled hair and body care products led to a highly successful mail-order and web-based business. Within a few years, Carol's Daughter counted celebrities like Jada Pinkett Smith, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu, Brad Pitt and Chaka Khan as loyal fans, or as she refers to them, "friends of the family."
Nature, family and love are words that resonate for Carol's Daughter and as business expands, Lisa makes sure that detailed care and attention is given to each product. Within every Carol's Daughter product, whether it's the Ecstasy Shea Soufflé or the Almond Cookie Sea Salt Body Scrub, the uniqueness of the name is an association with the familial manner in which the products were born.
Right now, Carol's Daughter is offering some fantastic mother's day sets with free shipping with a $40 order. We are especially fond of anything smelling like Jamaican Punch.Here are a few more favorites:
- Khoret Amen Leave In Conditioner
- Ocean Sea Salt Scrub
- Candy Paint Lip Gloss: This non-sticky formula contains NO lead, petroleum, mineral oil or artificial colors and absolutely NO parabens
Going Green
In honor of Earth Day, Daily Dose of Coffee will be bringing you profiles of eco-conscious and natural cosmetics companies. Isn't it great to shop totally without guilt?


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UnNews:European airports reopen as airlines question ban
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21 April 2010
LONDON, England -- Skies over Europe are reopening, but some airlines question the need for the ban.
Willie Walsh, chief executive of British Airways, said "I do not believe a blanket ban was necessary. We always keep spare duvets in the overhead lockers in case of ash clouds in the North Atlantic." He stressed that his airline is well-equipped to deal with occasional plane crashes, and that legal precedents are in place by which BA's liability would be capped at £200 per crash victim.
However, Lord Adonis of Narcissus, the British Transport Secretary, defended his decision. "We based our decision on the best of science, direct from the University of East Anglia. Besides, 'safety first,' right?" Lord Narcissus previously held a key post in the notorious build-up to 1 January 2000, when computers were expected to all seize up, and bankers would thus refuse to disburse customer deposits.
Airlines confronted Lord Narcissus on Tuesday with the fact that air travel had resumed throughout the continent but was still mostly banned in Britain. There were only 200 flights on Tuesday, and these were in Scotland and the North East, where notorious air crashes are commonplace and life has less value. "The Labour party have taken on 3,000 employees to enforce the ban," continued Narcissus. "These are good people and they deserve work to do. Now if you excuse me, I need to look in the mirror to admire my reflection."
Lord Narcissus held his ground despite protests that the ban would drive airlines into bankruptcy. But Tuesday a new threat emerged: That the U.K. would be out of step with its neighbors, based on their resumption of flights. Lord Narcissus clarified, "The Civil Aviation Authority has been working with the research community to better understand different concentrations of ash. As a result, we have now established a wider area in which it is safe to fly, consistent with the framework agreed by the EU transport ministers." Thus, the key component of air safety was ministerial unanimity. In addition, airlines have been sending up test flights, empty of fare-paying customers, and none have crashed, which is conclusive proof.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown seems unscathed by the travel disruption; he cleared 300 stranded passengers to board a Royal Navy vessel and even gave them mops and spiffy paper hats. And no British newspaper was moved to compose a headline announcing that the entire European continent was "isolated."
- Gordon Rayner, David Millward and James Kirkup "UK airports reopen as BA claims shutdown 'unnecessary'". London Telegraph, April 20, 2010


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Videos | May 9, 2010
School Space
Students get answers to questions about how planets form, how gravity works and what keeps the sun shining.
(Ota Lutz, NASA/JPL Education Specialist)
Teachers would often like their students to be able to ask questions of a scientist.
Today we have a teacher and some students in Glendale, Calif., with questions on the solar system.
Glendale, would you like to introduce yourselves?
(Mrs. Pascale-Parra, Teacher)
Hi, My name is Mrs. Pascale-Parra and I teach at Roosevelt Middle School in Glendale, Calif. I teach 8th grade science and some of my students have questions for a scientist.
(Ota Lutz)
Well we just happen to have in the studio with us today Varoujan, who is a scientist on the Spitzer Space Telescope. So, Roosevelt, hit us with your questions.
Hello, I'm Anaiah and my question to you is how were all the planets formed in the beginning?
(Varoujan Gorjian, Scientist, Spitzer Space Telescope)
Basically our solar system formed from a giant ball of gas. Part of it became a little bit denser and then that started collapsing. The gravity of it started bringing in more gas and in this gas, there's a little bit of dust in this thing. So the center part of that gas becomes our sun and then there's a disk of this dust that forms around it and slowly these little bits of dust hit each other and they become bigger dust grains and then they hit each other some more and they become little pebbles. And as it gets bigger and bigger, it starts attracting more and more pebbles so then it becomes boulders and the boulders hit each other and become bigger boulders and eventually that's how the planets formed.
Hi, my name is Gor and my question is how does the Earth move? What keeps it going?
(Varoujan Gorjian)
Everything in space moves and the Earth formed as part of this moving disk of dust and gas around our sun. As it was contracting, like a skater pulling her arms in, it starts moving faster and faster and now the Earth is moving fast enough so that it doesn't fall into the sun. Basically it's going around the sun in its orbit and the reason why it doesn't slow down, you know if you roll a ball it'll slow down, that's because there's friction. But in space, it's a vacuum, there's nothing to rub against so there's nothing to slow the Earth down so there's nothing that needs to keep it going like a motor or an engine.
How come gravity never stops working?
(Varoujan Gorjian)
Well gravity isn't something that has to keep working. Gravity is a property of anything that has mass. A proton has gravity, it's one of the smallest particles around and you have gravity, a ball has gravity, anything that has mass, has gravity.
My name is Jessica and my question is what keeps the sun on fire?
(Varoujan Gorjian)
We get light and heat from the sun like we get from fire. The sun isn't on fire in the same way that we understand fire. Fire is what's called a chemical process, say you have wood on fire, it has carbon in it. The oxygen and the carbon combine and share electrons and that gives off the light and the heat. The sun is very different. It has a nuclear process. It takes elements and changes them by combining them. Their nuclei come together in a process called fusion and that process releases all that energy, which gives us the heat and the light from the sun.
Does the sun ever run of fuel?
(Varoujan Gorjian)
The sun can run out of fuel and it will run out of fuel. No worries, it's about 5 billion years from now. But the main thing is it's all about fuel and when a star runs out of fuel like any other kind of generation process, it will not be able to produce that energy anymore.
(Ota Lutz)
Well thank you guys again for your questions and we will see you around.
(Mrs. Pascale-Parra and students)
Bye, thank you.
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Let Pride be your guide this WEEK AHEAD!
Saturday, June 28
LAST CHANCE→ It's your last chance to catch In the Heights stars Lin-Manuel Miranda and Karen Olivo on stage together again. The Tony-winning duo star with Leslie Odom, Jr., of "Smash" fame, in the Encores! Off-Center production of Jonathan Larson's autobiographical musical tick, tick... BOOM! (New York City Center, 130 W. 55th St., btwn. 6th & 7th Aves. Info/tickets.)
Sunday, June 29
LAST CHANCE→ Bryan Cranston's Tony-winning turn as Lyndon Baines Johnson in All The Way plays its last show on Broadway. The "Breaking Bad" star portrays LBJ at the tumultuous outset of his presidency and the mercurial months that followed — from advances in Civil Rights legislation to America's looming involvement in the Vietnam War. (Neil Simon Theatre, 250 W. 52nd St., btwn. Broadway & 8th Ave. Info/tickets.)
LAST CHANCE→ Four-time Tony winner Harvey Fierstein goes back to his playwriting roots with Casa Valentina, the funny, heartbreaking and prescient tale of a group of men who prefer to dress as women at the dawn of the sexual revolution. (Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 261 W. 47th St., btwn. Broadway & 8th Ave. Info/tickets.)
LAST CHANCE→ Warren Carlyle and Wynton Marsalis' song and dance-filled homage to the Golden Age of jazz at Harlem's Cotton Club, After Midnight, takes its last turn on the dance floor. Multi Grammy-winning songstress Patti LaBelle heads the cast as the featured performer. (Brooks Atkinson Theatre, 256 W. 47th St., btwn. Broadway & 8th Ave. Click here for Playbill Club discount tickets.)
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Monday, June 30
GO (FREE)→ Shakespeare in the Park celebrates the work of its namesake playwright with a free Public Forum event, "Shakespeare in America." James Earl Jones, Alec Baldwin, Annette Bening, Jessica Chastain, Colman Domingo, Brian Dennehy and other Park alumni will read passages from the Bard's famous canon. (8 PM, Delacorte Theatre, Central Park, enter at 81st St. & Central Park West or 79th St. and 5th Ave. Info/tickets.)
Tuesday, July 1
GO→ Randy Newman makes a rare stage appearance in a one-night-only concert version of his 1993 musical Faust. Newman plays the devil in his rock-opera take on the classic tale of selling your soul to Satan. Sharing the stage with Newman are Michael Cerveris, Laura Osnes and the Broadway Inspirational Voices. (7:30 PM, New York City Center, 130 W. 55th St., btwn. 6th & 7th Aves. Info/tickets.)
Wednesday, July 2
GO→ Tony-winning Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk star Savion Glover brings a new dance to the Joyce with the world premiere of OM, a spiritual, jazz-filled dance conjuring the spirits of Gandhi, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Gregory Hines. (Through July 12, The Joyce Theater, 175 8th Ave. Info/tickets.)
Thursday, July 3
GO→ Playbill staff writer Michael Gioia, a proud belting moonlighter, presents his favorite artists, including Tony nominee Robin De Jesus, The Book of Mormon's Matt Doyle and Motown's Ariana DeBose, in an evening of Bitching and Belting. (11:30 PM, 54 Below, 254 54th St., btwn. Broadway & 8th Ave., $20, Info/tickets.)
Friday, July 4
WATCH→ Nick Cannon hosts Macy's annual Fourth of July fireworks spectacular, which takes place on Manhattan's east side this year. Enrique Inglesias, Ariana Grande and Lionel Richie are slated to perform. A special 200th anniversary rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner," sung by Idina Menzel and Billy Porter, will play as the fireworks rain over the East River! (8 PM EST, NBC. Info.)
WATCH→ Ring in America's birthday in our nation's capital with PBS' annual "A Capital Fourth" celebration, broadcast live from the West Lawn of the Capitol. Kelli O'Hara, Frankie Valli, Patti LaBelle, Michael McDonald and Jordin Sparks are on the roster of performers along with the National Symphony Orchestra performing "The Star Spangled Banner." (8 PM, PBS, check local listings. Info.)


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A Month into Kuala Lumpur
It has been a month since I settled down in Kuala Lumpur with my new job.
Well, not exactly in KL. More of Petaling Jaya – that's where I currently reside and work.
Hmm… How come got condominiums named after my name ah?
Anyway, friends asked about my life since venturing into the 'coolest' (according to them) place in Malaysia.
I'd say it's pretty much the normal life. Just more time spent in traffic jams and money spent on petrol.
Being here gave me certain exposures. Although I'm not interested in the common lifestyle (shopping, eating out, clubbing) possessed by most people in KL, I can say I'm doing fine.
So in this entry, I'd like to elaborate more on my presence in KL.
How's work?
Work has been good so far. Lots of new IT systems and tools to be learned and thankfully, I'm able to pick up rapidly.
Working environment is conducive. Colleagues are great. Learning opportunities are just fine. Career development and advancement, on the other hand, might be a little tight. :/
I hope my boss doesn't know I have a blog!
What about clubbing?
To many, it's called "life" in KL! Am I right?
However, I'm always reluctant when I get invited to go "clubbing". Frankly, it's not my cup of tea. Many people perceive it as socializing and a fun way to release stress. But personally, I think it's a waste of money and time.
I'd rather 'club' at home…
So much more fun, comfy and cozy!
P/S: Please ignore the bed sheet.
Who have you met?
Well, I met a few bloggers (for the first time) in the movie screening of The Social Network at Mid Valley recently. Oh yeah, thanks to Nuffnang for the complimentary tickets.
This is the only picture I got so far. From left to right – Rabiatul, Red Buttockz (I don't know why) & Nicole aka MsXeroz.
Other than them, I finally got to interact verbally (no more just online blog comments) with the big shots – Timothy Tiah, Red Mummy and a few more.
Making big money?
What big money? Don't have lah… Just look at my wallet!
RM6 only. I'm poor… donations please?
So yeah, I'm doing great over here in the big city. Many dreams and wishes, and hopefully I can fulfill them in the near future.
There are lots more to explore and climb in life.
Remember this from an earlier entry?
Yeah, still aiming for it! ;)


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I live in the beautiful state of Wisconsin, with the exception of the bone-chilling cold during January and February! One of my state's senators sent me a letter informing me that, in short, mining here can be done safely with minimal environmental impact.
There is no such thing as "safe mining!" The two words when put together are polar opposites of each other. I like my idea better, so I emailed it off to him! You can do the same with all of your state's elected officials, including your governor, by sending them a clear, resounding message that it is (way past) time to divest from dirty, finite energy and invest in cheaper, clean, renewable energy starting today! Our climate is screaming for help, and we can no longer let our legislators promote their hidden, greed-laden agendas!
Here is a copy of a brief letter that I just sent off to Senator Cullen:


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September 24, 1948 - February 28, 2013
Cross Hill, SC
Linda Secker Geer, born on September 24, 1948, of Cross Hill, SC, wife of Edwin B. Geer, entered into rest after a long battle with Multiple Sclerosis on Thursday, February 28, 2013 at Self Regional Medical Center at the young age 64.
A loving wife and mother who enjoyed fishing and browsing flea markets with her God sent husband, Linda was born in Freeport, Long Island. She was a daughter of the late Herbert E. Secker and Virginia Rose Secker. Linda was a Phlebotomist and an "all-around-great and happy person".
Surviving in addition to her husband of the home are three sons: Frederick L. McGee, Jr. and his wife, Deanna, Scott A. McGee and Jerry M. McGee, all of NY; a sister, Janet Morse of NY and two grandchildren: Zachary F. McGee and Jessica L. McGee. She will be greatly missed by all.
A private memorial service will be held at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to St. Jude Children's Hospital or The Multiple Sclerosis Foundation.
Harley Funeral Home & Crematory (www.harleyfuneralhome.com) is assisting the Geer family.